The win extended Swansea’s unbeaten run in the Premier League to six games and is the first time they have recorded back-to-back victories since the opening two games of the campaign against Queens Park Rangers and West Ham.

Britton had described the first-half performance in the midweek win over West Brom as the best 45 minutes of football he had seen in his 10-year association with the club and says he was delighted that they backed it up with another impressive performance at Arsenal.

Spanish forward Miguel Michu clinched the victory with two late goals in another excellent example of counter-attacking football.

He said: “It was a great performance from the whole team and I think you could say we deserved it really.

“On the balance of play Arsenal had a lot of possession, but in terms of chances I think we probably edged it.

“The game-plan was to sit back a bit and let the forward line drift back to the halfway line.

“When they get into our half we wanted to close them down and try to get our chances on the break.

“We did that at Newcastle and it paid off and, thankfully, it worked again.

“Michu’s so good in those situations as we’ve already seen this season, especially the second one because he had so long.

“It can be hard in those situations, but he tucked them both away with great composure.”

Britton backed Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger as the man to lead the Gunners out of their poor form, despite the Frenchman being booed by a section of the home supporters on Saturday.

The Arsenal players were jeered at half-time and full-time by the Gunners faithful with Wenger taking the brunt of their abuse at the final whistle.

“At home, they haven’t picked up as many results as they’d like and they’ll be disappointed with that,” added Britton.

“It’s a very tough place to come. When Arsenal have got their football flowing and are firing on all cylinders it’s still one of the most difficult places to come in the country.

“Maybe at home it’s just not going for them at the moment.

“But look at the quality they’ve got as a squad, it’s only a matter of time before they fire again and get back up there.”

Swansea are now just three points behind West Brom in the final European qualification place and have an excellent chance to close the gap with the visit of Norwich next Saturday.

The Swans have struggled against Norwich in recent seasons, but the Canaries have looked vulnerable this season under new boss Chris Hughton.

Britton said: “We don’t want to get too carried away, obviously it’s a great day for us. We’ll enjoy it for the next 24 hours and then move on.

“We’ve got a very tough game against Norwich so we’ll just take each game as it comes.

“The games we’ve played against Norwich they’ve got the better of us and that’s something we want to put right.

“Both teams know each other very well after coming up from the Championship, but we’re at home and we’re confident against anyone at home.

“Well have to work hard to get a result, but obviously the confidence is quite high. The aim at the start of the season was to stay in the league and we’re still very new to it. We’re only 18 months into it.

“We’ll just take it steady, the main target is survival and we’ll evaluate it after that.